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# This Week - Sep 20, 2013
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/this-week-2013-09-20/
- Published: 2013-09-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T03:10:52.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: link, harvard business review, meredith fineman, sean o'neill, this week, #import-blog-backlog-2026-09-13

> So much of this is about out-doing each other. To say that “I’m busier than you are” means I’m more important, or that my time is more valuable, or that I am “winning” at some never-finished rat race to Inbox Zero.  
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> — [Please Stop Complaining About How Busy You Are (Harvard Business Review)](http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/09/please-stop-complaining-about/?ref=drewshannon.net)

> So much of modern life has been 'media-tized.' Tourism too often involves seeing 'in person' places that you’ve already seen first “virtually” on the TV or Internet. In my own case, I had seen a thousand images of Athens before I ever set foot there.  
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> — [Authenticity, A Moving Target (Sean Oneill)](https://medium.com/editors-picks/464bce950871?ref=drewshannon.net)